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<font face="Verdana">Tx Parminder.<br>
As you can see from the text, your help was important.<br>
I think the balance between my 'idealistic' call for cooperation,
at the opening and Jeremy's concrete proposals at the closing was
a good technique.<br>
<br>
On another note, I appreciate your 'risk taking' in strong
opinions. I think it helps us keep on track when we get
distracted. <br>
<br>
Thanks for everything. Best, Ginger <br>
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Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
IGCBP Online Coordinator<br>
DiploFoundation<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig">www.diplomacy.edu/ig</a><br>
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concepts from Diplo’s teaching and research activities. Our
activities focus on three main areas: Internet governance,
diplomacy, and global governance. In September, we DISCUSS: a)
network neutrality: hype and reality, b) the IGF experience: what
can policy makers learn from the IGF, and c) the history of the
Internet. Let us know if you have suggestions about ideas and
concepts that should be discussed.</div>
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On 9/19/2010 1:45 AM, parminder wrote:
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks Ginger, very good
stuff, and captures very well the nuances of the kind of IG
processes
that the IGC supports and want taken ahead.</font> parminder<br>
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On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:00 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:
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Our presentation is online at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/bHQLMP">http://bit.ly/bHQLMP</a>
Ginger's presentation at Opening Ceremony<br>
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Here is the text:<br>
</font><font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">Opening
Session
September 14, 2010</font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Ginger (Virginia) Paque, Co-coordinator, Civil
Society
Internet Governance Caucus</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Good afternoon, excellencies, distinguished
guests, ladies
and gentlemen. I would like to think that I am speaking
for the Civil
society Internet Governance Caucus or IGC, for Civil
society, and in
fact, for everyone here today. How can that be?</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Many of us wear several hats indicating our
profession or
affiliation... Today, I am speaking as co-coordinator of
the Civil
society IG caucus, but I am also Internet Governance
Capacity Building
Programme online course coordinator for
DiploFoundation... two civil
society hats...</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Some of us represent government, business,
academia and civil
society in different or overlapping areas of our lives,
or at different
times of the day... but in the end, we take off our hats
and we are
members of society, individuals, Internet users. We are
parents,
worried about our children's safety online. We are
Internet users
concerned about the security of our financial data. We
are citizens
seeking to protect our basic rights to access, freedom
of expression,
and information. </font></font></font> </p>
<pre class="western"><font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">Multistakeholderism – recognised in the Tunis Agenda 2005 - was the biggest conceptual achievement in WSIS. It was accepted as a guiding principle for Internet Governance and the IGF in contrast to the intergovernmental stakeholder approach previously applied. </font></font></font>
<font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">
This success demands that the IGF continue with its core structure basically unchanged, while emphasizing the further application of enhanced cooperation.</font></font></font></pre>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">The Civil Society in each of us worries about
our human
rights, about child porn, and about being scammed. We
worry about
finding information in our native languages. We worry
that the richness
and diversity of our traditions will be replaced by a
new SMS text
language. The Civil society Internet Governance Caucus
asks that we
continue to work on these issues together, by
appropriately applying
the principles of the basic Human Rights instruments,
such as the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and supporting the
principle of
indivisibility of rights highlighted in the WSIS
declaration of
principles. </font></font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">This Enhanced Cooperation is not just a process
that will
address the issue of Critical Internet Resources. It
also allows the
IGF to set a precedent to address all global IG issues.
It includes the
imperative of developing policies in addition to the IGF
process; a
process which is oriented towards taking wide inputs,
deliberating on
options, and feeding into the policy developing
processes. These two
actions are complementary though clearly distinct and
both must be
achieved. </font></font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">In this regard we salute the ECOSOC report
E/2009/92 adopted
last month that makes these two points. We also note
happily that the
once-stalled process of Enhanced Cooperation is now
being prioritized,
as was mandated by the WSIS, through the planned open
consultations
later this year.<br>
</font></font></font><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We acknowledge the achievements of the </font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font><font size="4"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Commission
on Science and Technology for Development</span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font><font size="4"><b> </b></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font><font size="4"> working group on IGF
reform and
express our desire and commitment to work closely with
it, as well as
the Association for Progressive Communications and other
Civil Society
initiatives.</font></font></font><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We continue to support the regional IGF
meetings, with closer
focus that will address problems at every level,
spreading the impact
of the IGF around the world in physical meetings and
including the
themes discussed regionally.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We support the unique model of dynamically
engaged hubs and
remote participation as innovative developments of the
IGF. Local
meetings and remote participation have increased
inclusion to the point
where this IGF has individual remote participants
engaged online around
the world and with an unprecedented 33 local hubs
registered.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We reiterate the importance of capacity
development to
improve inclusion, to allow us each to build the
resources and
knowledge to reach our goals.<br>
<br>
Finally, we invite all of you to join Civil Society in
addressing
specific IG issues such as Net Neutrality vis a vis
wireless Internet.
We invite progressive Civil Society and other players to
make
themselves clearly heard working towards a user-centric…
a
people-centric Internet. We must continue the IGF model
of providing a
new set of means and processes for openness and
participation that will
become the default global standard.<br>
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Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
IGCBP Online Coordinator<br>
DiploFoundation<br>
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href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig">www.diplomacy.edu/ig</a><br>
<br>
<b>The latest from Diplo...</b> <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu">http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu</a>
is a space for discussing ideas and concepts from Diplo’s
teaching and
research activities. Our activities focus on three main areas:
Internet
governance, diplomacy, and global governance. In September, we
DISCUSS:
a) network neutrality: hype and reality, b) the IGF
experience: what
can policy makers learn from the IGF, and c) the history of
the
Internet. Let us know if you have suggestions about ideas and
concepts
that should be discussed.</div>
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